Plush lap-robe.



No. 644,809. Patented Mar; 6, |900.

J. STROOCK.

PLUSH LAP ROBE.

Application led Nov. 23, 1899.1

(No Model.)

www@ dem a lil'nrrn drains i JOSEPH STROOOK, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PLUSH LAP-ROBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,809, dated March 6, i900.

Application filed November 23, 1899. Serial No. 738,080- (No specimens.)

'llo @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH S'rnoocn, a cittzen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Plush Lap-Robes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the manufacture of plush lap-robes; and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and said invention isfully disclosed in the following description and claims.

Referring to the said drawings, Figure l represents a front View of a lap-rope constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of a portion of the robe. Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view showing a modification of my invention.

My invention relates to the manufacture of plush lap-robes having the main portion of a solid color and a central portion which is preferably in the form of a panel of circular, elliptical, square, or other preferred shape, provided with a design printed thereon in lighter colors. In the manufacture it is customary to use as the weft-threads a white or lightcolored woolen yarn which will take the lightest shade of the central decorative portion and which can be napped and sheared in a well-known manner to produce the plushy pile. The central portion of the robe is dyed or printed with the ornamental desi gn,and all the rest of the robe is dyed or printed black or some other plain dark color. In order that the central portion of the robe,which receives the ornamental design,m ay be printed in light colors, it is necessary to` use white wooleu yarn in `making the entire robe, thus making it a costly article to manufacture.

In carrying out my invention I employ a cheap grade of weft material which may be of a dark color--as, for eXample,a dark yarn composed in large part of animal-hair,with a little wool,sufficient to give it strength. This kind of yarn will take a black or other plain dark color and can be napped and sheared to produce a plush or sealskin surface. I then weave 'a separate fabric, using the white or light-colored wool yarn for the weft,which is much more expensive than the above de scribed mixed hair and wool yarn, and on this fabric I print or stamp or in any desired way produce the desired ornamental pattern in the light colors, and the material is then napped and sheared in the usual manner. I then cut out these ornamental designs from the more expensive fabric as economically as possible in the form of panels which may be of any desired shape. I then take one of these panels and apply it to the center of the robe woven with the aforesaid cheap 1naterial and previously dyed a solid black or dark color and napped and sheared, and I applique the said panel upon the central portion of the robe, concealing the edges by the use of-a braid or gimp which is stitched or otherwise attached. By this means I produce substantially the same effect as is produced in the more expensive robe and at a very small percentage of the cost of the latter.

In the drawings, A represents a robe which is made by the use of the dark cheap weft-v threads before described dyed black or other solid dark color and napped and sheared to produce the desired plushy effect.

B represents the ornamental panel composed of `the more expensive light woolen threads, in this instance in the f orm of a circle, bearing a suitable design in light colors and napped and sheared.

O` represents the binding tape, braid, or gimp which is used to cover the edges of the central panel B, and, as shown, is stitched to the robe A at c and c', the inner circle of the stitches c' passing through both the robe A and the panel B. l

In some instances I may iind it desirable to cut out the central portion of the robe A and fit the panel B accurately therein and secure it by a tape or binding on one or both sides, and such a construction is illustrated in Fig. 3; but the forni shown in Fig. l is my preferred form.

What I clairn,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The herein-described process of manufacturing plush lap-robes having a uniform surface'and having their main portions dyed or printed in a dark solid color and provided IOO with a central ornamental portion in lighter colors, which consists in Weaving the entire main body of the robe with a cheap quality of weft, of a dark natural color which is incapable of taking the dyes of light colors, and dyeing' or printing the said main body the dark solid color, weaving the material to receive the ornamental portion of a iiner quality of material of a very light natural color which will take the lighter-colored dyes, dyeing or printing the design therein in lighter colors than the said dark solid color and attaching the said ornamental portion to the main body whereby a vcheaper robe is produced having the same ornamental eiect as those made wholly of the liner quality of material, substantially as described.

2. A plush lap-robe having its main body composed of a cheap quality of weft-threads of a naturally-dark color, incapable of receiv- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 3o in the presence of two witnesses.

' JOSEPH STROOCK.

W'itnesses:

SMooT STERN, SOLOMON M. STRoocK. 

